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Book I Chapter 29 · I.29.2.13–I.29.2.15
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p. 6862 Ἀρριανοῦ · 13
Καὶ χιτῶνα ἤδη οὐκ ἔκαυσαν, ἀλλὰ ἐτρύχωσαν μόνον· καὶ διὰ μὲν κεράμου διῆλθον, τὸ δὲ ἐνὸν ἐν αὐτῷ διεφόρησαν. Τούτων ξυμπάντων οἱ μὲν λαμπροὶ ἀργῆτες· ὅσοι δὲ καταιθαλώσαντες τὰ πελάσαντά σφισιν ἐπαύσαντο, οὗτοι δὴ ψολόεντες ἐπὶ τῷ ἔργῳ ἐκλήθησαν.
2 Ἀρριανοῦ · 14
Καὶ οἱ μὲν εὐθείᾳ κατασκήψαντες εἰς τὸ ἔμπαλιν τῇ αὐτῇ εὐθείᾳ ἀνῇξαν· οἱ δὲ ἐκ πλαγίου ἐμπεσόντες πρὸς ἴσην γωνίαν ἄνω ἀναφέρονται· καὶ οἱ μὲν ἁπλοῖ, οἱ δὲ διπλοῖ κατέσκηψαν.
2 Ἀρριανοῦ · 15
πλεῖστοι δὲ ἦρος καὶ μετοπώρου καὶ ἅμα βιαιότεροι περί τε πλειάδος καὶ ἀρκτούρου ἐπιτολήν, ὅτι ἐν κινήσει καὶ παθήμασι πολυειδέσιν ὁ ἀὴρ τῇδε τῇ ὥρᾳ ἐστίν, οἷα δὴ οὔτε ὑπὸ κρύει πεπηγὼς οὔτε ὑπὸ τῷ θερινῷ ἡλίῳ ἐκκεκαθαρμένος. Τοιγάρτοι καὶ ἐν χώραις ὅσαι νιφετώδεις καὶ ψυχραὶ καὶ ὅσαι αὖ κεκαυμέναι ὑπὸ ἡλίῳ ⟨εἰ⟩ κατασκήπτουσιν, οἱ κατασκήψαντες ἐν θαύμασιν ἀναφέρονται, καθάπερ ἐν Κελτοῖς καὶ παρ᾽ Αἰγυπτίοις.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 29
p. 6872 Arrian: Traces left by a strike
They have also left a tunic unburned, merely reducing it to rags; and they have passed through an earthenware vessel while scattering its contents. Among all these, the luminous ones are “bright”; those that ceased after blackening with soot whatever came near them were called “smoky” from what they did.
2 Arrian: The course of the strike
Those that strike straight down dart back in the opposite direction along the same straight line; those that strike obliquely are carried upward at an equal angle. Some strike singly, others doubly.882
2 Arrian: Seasons and climates
They are most numerous in spring and autumn, and also more violent around the rising of the Pleiades and of Arcturus, because at this season the air is in motion and undergoes changes of many kinds: it is neither congealed by cold nor cleared by the summer sun. Accordingly, in regions that are snowy and cold, and in those scorched by the sun, ⟨if⟩ thunderbolts strike, the strikes are counted among marvels, as among the Celts and the Egyptians.883
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